Snow

It snowed today. I woke up to about an inch and a half of the cold white stuff covering everything in sight. It wasn't the first snow this winter - that happened about a month ago when Rich and I were frustrated and lost on the east side of town, trying to find a place that was really on the west side - and which we probably passed on our way to losthood. In any case, I couldn't stop thinking that the snow had come really early - I was expecting it in January at the earliest. It has snowed at least once a week since then, and every time I see fresh snow, I have to remind myself that I'm not in Cincinnati anymore. I won't get off work when the forcast predicts an inch. I won't get to act like it's dangerous to be driving around in a snowstorm. And I don't get to complain that I have to walk between buildings in the cold - I'm pretty sure someone biked to work today. The other thing that's hit me is that I'm not just in the city anymore. Or really in the suburbs. I drive past farms on my way to work. And wild turkeys. And deer. Which only makes it cooler to drive to work when it's snowing. It's like living a scene out of a paiting just before my 9 o'clock conference call. Three years of college in a warmer place has definately made me a wimp when it comes to winter weather. But even if I never stoop to saving my parking spot with a lawn chair, hopefully I'll get used to Wisconsin winters...